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Sep. 11th, 2006 07:16 am
Sep. 11th, 2006
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Sep. 11th, 2006 03:09 pmMany people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call from someone shortly after thinking about them. Now a scientist says he has proof of what he calls telephone telepathy.
Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College in Cambridge, England, said on Tuesday he has conducted experiments that proved such precognition exists for telephone calls and even e-mails.
Each person in the trials was asked to give researchers names and phone numbers of four relatives or friends. These were then called at random and told to ring the subject who had to identify the caller before answering the phone.
"The hit rate was 45 percent, well above the 25 percent you would have expected," he told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. "The odds against this being a chance effect are 1,000 billion to one."
He said he found the same result with people being asked to name one of four people sending them an e-mail before it had landed.
However, his sample was small on both trials--just 63 people for the controlled telephone experiment and 50 for the e-mail--and only four subjects were actually filmed in the phone study and five in the e-mail, prompting some skepticism.
Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College in Cambridge, England, said on Tuesday he has conducted experiments that proved such precognition exists for telephone calls and even e-mails.
Each person in the trials was asked to give researchers names and phone numbers of four relatives or friends. These were then called at random and told to ring the subject who had to identify the caller before answering the phone.
"The hit rate was 45 percent, well above the 25 percent you would have expected," he told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. "The odds against this being a chance effect are 1,000 billion to one."
He said he found the same result with people being asked to name one of four people sending them an e-mail before it had landed.
However, his sample was small on both trials--just 63 people for the controlled telephone experiment and 50 for the e-mail--and only four subjects were actually filmed in the phone study and five in the e-mail, prompting some skepticism.
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Sep. 11th, 2006 03:42 pmFor ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jerril, and everyone else who hasn't seen this since I last linked it 6 or 8 months ago:
Here's The Ur-Quan Masters, a modern PC remake of the second-greatest video game of all time, Star Control 2.
It's free to download.
It runs on XP.
It's a brilliant piece of hilarious space-opera satire, while remaining brilliant space opera itself!
It has Frungy!
Go, download, and play. It requires very, very little in the realm of skills - you can ALWAYS slow down, stay away from the more dangerous planets (and all the planets have their dangers listed) and outrun almost *anything* in the game if you want to, and just enjoy the story, or you can CRUSH PUNY ALIENS HARGH HARGH HARGH if you're a twitchgamer.
It's the second-greatest computer game of all time.
What are you waiting for?
jerril, and everyone else who hasn't seen this since I last linked it 6 or 8 months ago:Here's The Ur-Quan Masters, a modern PC remake of the second-greatest video game of all time, Star Control 2.
It's free to download.
It runs on XP.
It's a brilliant piece of hilarious space-opera satire, while remaining brilliant space opera itself!
It has Frungy!
Go, download, and play. It requires very, very little in the realm of skills - you can ALWAYS slow down, stay away from the more dangerous planets (and all the planets have their dangers listed) and outrun almost *anything* in the game if you want to, and just enjoy the story, or you can CRUSH PUNY ALIENS HARGH HARGH HARGH if you're a twitchgamer.
It's the second-greatest computer game of all time.
What are you waiting for?
